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Artistic activities and cultural activism as responses to HIV/AIDS in Harare, Zimbabwe
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Susan Pietrzyk --- Department of Anthropology, United StatesOver the last two decades both the number and types of civil-society-led organisations involved in addressing HIV and AIDS have increased dramatically. In many cases, the work undertaken is thoughtfully researched, appropriately focused, and as a result produces positive outcomes... -
On the Poetics and Politics of the Afar Kassow
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Gidey Alemu Muauz --- Department of Political Sciences, South Africa Mohamed Hassan Saleh --- Research and Study Center of Djibouti (CERD), Djibouti RepublicThe Afar people have a rich poetic tradition pertaining to every aspect of their pastoral way of life in the harsh condition of the Afar desert. One of the many genres of Afar poetics is Afar Kassow the folk’s poetized... -
In Search of Poem-Maps of the Swahili Seas: Three Sea Poems by Haji Gora Haji
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor --- Independent Scholar, KenyaTo what extent can a text borne in memory give texture, perspectives, meaning, dimensionality and sense to a place? Where is the locus of meaning in such a case? Can this locus be mapped? Questions about Swahili navigational poetry (poem-maps)... -
Gnomic Poetry and Innovation in Euphrase Kezilahabi’s Dhifa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ahmad Kipacha --- The Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science & Technology, TanzaniaEuphrase Kezilahabi can be truly regarded as belonging to that category of poets in the world of creative writing who is innovative. This paper seeks to affirm that assertion by providing evidence of creativity and innovation in ‘gnomic’ poetry in... -
The Role of Mrisho Mpoto’s Songs in Developing Oral Literature
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Evans Makhulo --- Department of Linguistics and Languages, KenyaThis paper investigates the contribution of Mrisho Mpoto’s songs in developing oral literature. It does so by examining the role of oral literature and evaluating the extent to which his songs advance the said role. Furthermore, we propose to show... -
Tatamkhulu Afrika, Queer Heroism, Triangulated Forms
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Michelle Decker --- , USATatamkhulu Afrika, lauded writer and South African activist, over the course of his life suffered imprisonments under the Nazis and the apartheid state; he also changed his name five times and won almost every literary award in South Africa. Afrika’s... -
“My Life is a Song”: A Conversation with Susan Kiguli
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Henri Oripeloye --- , Nigeria -
Lady Kennaway: A ship story
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Phindi Mnyaka --- , South AfricaMy paper is a meditation on the performativity of history writing and uses the case of the ship, Lady Kennaway, as a point of departure. Lady Kennaway was a 19th century ship whose last voyage included transporting young women to... -
‘The Vibe is Really Important’: Experiencing Hip-hop and Performance Poetry in Dar es Salaam
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Nikitta Dede Adjirakor --- , GermanyIn the city of Dar es Salaam, hip-hop and performance poetry events are a vibrant, visible presence. Research into this phenomenon has generally explored its relation to historical, economic, social or political contexts. Such approaches are only ever rarely concerned... -
The life of Yäkolo-tämari in Gondär as Reflected in Contemporary Oral Poetry
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Marshet Girmay Endeshaw --- University of Gondär, EthiopiaOral poetry is an element of the cultural heritage of Gondär in Ethiopia. It formerly was a popular way for people to convey their inner thoughts, disappointments and observations. Using this untapped oral poetry collected through interviews in the community... -
Representations of Indian Ocean Ecologies, Heritage and Kinship in Banaadiri Fishing Poems and Owuor's The Dragonfly Sea
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Ayan Salaad --- University of Southampton, UKThis article brings Yvonne Owuor’s 2019 novel The Dragonfly Sea into conversation with nine Banaadiri fishing poems called geeraarro, a form of classical Somali oral poetry in the maanso category. I explore the ways in which ideas of labour, kinship,... -
Navigating Interiorised Dissonance: Somali Women’s Identity, Agency and The Language of Apparel in Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: R.J. Lim --- Stellenbosch University, South AfricaNadifa Mohamed wrote The Orchard of Lost Souls with the impetus of foregrounding Somali women’s intimate experiences throughout the social and political upheaval during the prelude to the Somaliland-Somalia civil war. The Somali people’s centuries-cultivated homogeneity through culture and way... -
Towards a New Poetics of Comedic Performance in Kenya Following COVID-19
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Anne Lanoi Keton --- Maasai Mara University, Kenya Denis Waswa Barasa --- Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology, KenyaStand-up comedy in Kenya before COVID-19 relied on close proximity between comedians and their audiences. However, COVID-19 disrupted this arrangement and subverted the performance space of ‘traditional theatre.’ This article examines alternative comic spaces embraced by selected Kenyan stand-up comedians... -
An analysis of totemic animal imagery in Setswana praise poems of the Bakwena ba Mogopa clan of the Southern African Batswana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Joseph Maleke Sethabela --- Faculty of Humanities, Nelson Mandela University, South AfricaThis article explores the importance of totemic animal imagery in three extracts from Bakwena ba Mogopa praise poems, published in the original Setswana and subsequently translated into English. The poems, identified through convenience sampling, were chosen because they are representative... -
Philosophical and ideological intertextual resonances in OK Matsepe and Vonani Bila’s selected poems
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Journal of African Languages • Authors: Nelson Ratau --- University of Mpumalanga, South Africa James Seanego --- University of Limpopo, South AfricaThis article explores the philosophical and ideological intertextual resonances between OK Matsepe’s Ge wa ditšhila ka moka re ka o hlaswa and Vonani Bila’s The Toilet Cleaner at OR Tambo Airport. It argues that the two poems share thematic, ideological,...